Glute Slide – 6 Month Testing In Progress

I’ve been lifting consistently for over a decade. At this point, very few things truly humble me. I’m that weirdo that does all the stuff you are supposed to do like lateral movements, plyos, cardio, you name it. But occasionally I test something and get OBLITERATED. At HomeGymCon we tested the Glute Slide and a couple features weren’t too crazy, but the Adductor WRECKED me with a single band. And I train adductors every week!

Because of this, the Glute Slide got ordered after we got home, and it is now added to the Review Pipeline.

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We tested the Glute Slide at HomeGymCon 2026 and I knew I wanted it. We were given an “influencer discount” on our purchase, but still came in at over $700 out of pocket for our package.

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Glute Slide Overview

I’m a pretty firm believer in the idea that if you have strong hips, you’ll be able to handle just about anything. Stronger hips and glutes makes you run faster, jump further, and squat heavier. They help you be more resilient on the field and court, and you look better too. Whether you are chasing down a new powerlifting total, a new sprint time, or trying to get ready for swimsuit season, glutes and hips will help you get there.

And you know what is bonkers? This is the area of the body I find most likely to be left untrained, ignored, and otherwise lagging behind in every way. This goes for your average person as well as most athletes. So we see a lot of low back issues, knee pain, and compensatory movement blamed on the back in the form of “I have a bad back”. First hand experiences with myself and those I have trained have revealed EXACTLY this a number of times. And no amount of stretching, foam rolling, or other modality typically fully fixes these problems. We need to get stronger in and around the hips.

The Glute Slide is fairly basic in nature, and its primary purpose is to train all of those “other” muscles around the hips. It comes with a booklet that includes some other exercises as well, but the primary focus is going to be on the various glute muscles, adductors, and abductors. By training these through a range of motion, in a stable platform, with the ability to increase the resistance over time, we have a recipe for no more back and knee pain.

Glute Slide Specs

• Brand: Glute Slide
• Made In USA: No
• Power Required: None
• Dimensions: 65in long, 20in wide, 57in high (with handles) or less than 6in without
• Weight: ~80lbs
• Resistance: 0 to 180lbs of Resistance
• Warranty: Frame, Handle Bars, and Slide Platform covered for 3 years under recommended use. This warranty applies to defects in materials and workmanship. Bands covered for 90 days under recommended use.
• Return Window: 30 day return window, which means if you are not completely satisfied within the first month of use, send back your unit for a refund
• Assembly: None (some if you have the handlebars)

Shipping & Assembly

The Glute Slide gets delivered in one large box, which is supported inside by a formed wood “box”. This basically ensures that no damage will happen during shipping. You can easily take the top wood off, which shows off the picture above. The entire Glute Slide is wrapped in padding, taped up, and secure. It took me less than 10 minutes to take this all apart, sort it all, and get it cleaned up.

The box breaks down easily, the wood can be reused for other projects, and the packing materials can be tossed towards a local business easily. I only disposed of a few things in total.

The Glute Slide required no set-up, as we got the version with no handlebars for sake of space.

Glute Slide Features

The Glute Slide has two main platforms. One where you place your stable foot/leg, and the other that slides which is used for the foot/leg you are actively training. The platform that moves has a 45 degree wedge to it, which gives you the ability to push off of.

You can see above that we have 6 different “pop-pin” style pins. These engage the bands underneath. So if all of the pins are up, you have zero resistance. Each pin that is engaged adds roughly 20lbs of resistance, for a total of 120lbs of total resistance if all 6 are engaged. They also offer a band upgrade kit, which will take you up to 180lbs of total resistance (so 30lbs per band). And you COULD mix and match these bands to get say, 3×20 and 3×30 if you wanted to.

A key note here, bands have a variable resistance profile, which means that while it might be 20lbs at the full stretch of the band, it is considerably less at the start. The good news here, the way they implemented the bands has them beginning to stretch RIGHT AWAY, so we don’t have any dead zones. But keep in mind that we have 20lb jumps between bands, and an inconsistent strength profile (for better or worse).

The Glute Slide has a few other accessories available, some we snagged, some we did not. We grabbed the Adductor Block, which gives us the ability to stand on the other end and pull the sliding platform INTO us, instead of push it away. This was the movement at HomeGymCon that convinced me that I needed to snag this bad boy.

They also have an optional handlebar kit. I actually like this idea, BUT have two major problems. First, it costs $200. Second, it doesn’t fold down. It attaches via nuts and bolts, and greatly impacts the storage abilities of the unit. I think if this could fold up and down, or attach via something like a Hitch Pin or Mag Pin, we’d be in business.

The Glute Slide also has a couple of connection points for their Upper Body Chords, which can help you make this a compound exercise piece of equipment, engaging the core, arms, shoulders, back, you name it, while targetting the lower body at the same time. You can definitely make this happen a number of other ways, like using a cable machine or a VOLTRA with it. But its a nice feature.

Speaking of the VOLTRA, I really want to tinker and see how I can combine it with the Glute Slide. Stay tuned for that.

Vertical Storage & Mobility

The Glute Slide has wheels and a handle on the opposite end, which means we can easily wheel it around the gym. It is nice and light, so the wheels seem to be a pretty good fit. It isn’t exactly a perfect vertical storage set-up, as you can’t freely leave it out in the open and have it stand up vertically. But if you have a wall, or in my case, a mass storage unit, it seems to stand up well with a little assistance.

The accesorries we currently have are stored on our storage rack. I think they have the ability to potentially make a better storage solution build into the unit itself, that way things don’t get lost. In our gym, it’ll work fine. In a busier studio, or for a portable trainer, I could see that being a helpful piece to the puzzle.

What I’m Looking For In The Glute Slide

I really liked this thing in a quick test at HomeGymCon. Not much excites me that quickly. So out the gate my question is going to be, will I enjoy this as much in a few months as I did the first time I used it?

Because this won’t be a dedicated floor space piece, I want to see if my vertical storage solution stays in place or if we have some bumps and bruises over the months.

A big one for us, is whether this is easily scalable for all of our athletes. I’ll have my daughter and her 8 and 9 year old teammates in the gym, their moms, a couple buddies of mine, and myself, all using the Glute Slide. Can this one piece be adequate for all of us for all movements?

The main movements we got this for, are the major hip movements. But we are definitely going to try this for core work, hammies, you name it. We’ll see if we can come up with anything else wild too. And while we are at it, I want to see if we can combine this with other toys in the gym… The VOLTRA is an obvious one, but we’ll see if anything else gets the job done.

Overall… This needs to work well for a wide audience, stay in tact, and help us get after our goals. Bigger squats and deadlifts, faster sprints on the court/field, and maybe some well developed glute muscles to boot.

Other Options On The Market

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As always, there are a lot of ways to skin a cat here. I’ve done a number of adductor training movements in the gym, from rigging up an adductor cable machine concept, to doing copenhagen planks, or kossack squats. The winner here with the Glute Slide is the set up time, easability, and the “locked in” movement much like a machine.

On top of that, we get a lot of potential movements with one piece.

The downside here, is going to be the price. If you own a cable machine already, or a bar, you can attack a few of the movements I’ve done for years for MUCH less than the Glute Slide. The question is going to be, which stacks up as “better”? We’ll find out in a few months.

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